Promoting Handwashing Behavior: The Effects of Large-scale Community and School-level Interventions.
Health Econ
; 25(12): 1545-1559, 2016 12.
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| ID: mdl-26461811
This paper analyzes a randomized experiment that uses novel strategies to promote handwashing with soap at critical points in time in Peru. It evaluates a large-scale comprehensive initiative that involved both community and school activities in addition to communication campaigns. The analysis indicates that the initiative was successful in reaching the target audience and in increasing the treated population's knowledge about appropriate handwashing behavior. These improvements translated into higher self-reported and observed handwashing with soap at critical junctures. However, no significant improvements in the health of children under the age of 5 years were observed. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Desinfecção das Mãos
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Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde
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Promoção da Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Limite:
Child, preschool
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Humans
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Infant
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Newborn
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Peru
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Econ
Assunto da revista:
SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2016
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Reino Unido